Introduction:
Hi, I’m Brandon Jacobs, an intern on the Visual C++ Libraries team. For part of my internship, I was tasked with adding new features to Stephan T. Lavavej’s <collection.h> . It was certainly an honor to be one of...

Hello, I’m Pat Brenner, a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team. In this blog post I want to share some information about the C99 support added to the C run-time library in Visual Studio 2013.
To summarize, we added declarations and implementations...

Introduction
In VS2013 (download here ), we have introduced a new calling convention known as 'Vector Calling Convention' but before we go on and introduce the new calling convention let us take a look at the lay of the land today. There are multiple...

C++ REST SDK 1.1.0 has been released on CodePlex.
This version of the C++ REST SDK reintroduces the much anticipated the HTTP Listener library. Developers can now complete their REST story by creating their own server to respond to requests sent by...

We released the C++ REST SDK (codename "Casablanca") as an open source project on CodePlex in Feb 2013. It enables writing modern, asynchronous C++ code that can connect with REST services.
Using the C++ REST SDK, you can create an HTTP client that...

Hello, I’m Pat Brenner, a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team. In this blog post I want to share some information about the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) Library , and in particular the support of the multi-byte character set (MBCS) in...

If you have arrived in the middle of this blog series, you might want instead to begin at the beginning .
This post examines Constant-Folding – one of the simplest optimizations performed by the VC++ compiler. In this optimization, the compiler...

Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013 come with improvements for exception reporting in the platform and the debugger which will make it easier for native Windows Store App developers to diagnose errors in their applications. In this post, I’ll discuss...